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World Farmers' Organisation

World Farmers' Organisation is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand World Farmers' Organisation rather than just read about it. In short: The World Farmers' Organization (WFO) is an international organisation of farmers with a focus on agroecology, farming typologies, food chains, indigenous peoples, and mountain farming. History A former organisation, the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, was dissolved in 2010.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

The World Farmers' Organization (WFO) is an international organisation of farmers with a focus on agroecology, farming typologies, food chains, indigenous peoples, and mountain farming.

History A former organisation, the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, was dissolved in 2010. It had been the subject of criticism for mostly middle-class to rich farmers from the Global North. The World Farmers Organisation (WFO) was established in Rome, Italy, on 12 July 2011, with the aim of representing and advocating for farmers around the world, and bringing farmers and cooperatives together to develop policies and programs to provide solutions to global food security issues.

Description The WFO has its headquarters in Rome. It is an international organisation of farmers with a focus on agroecology, farming typologies, food chains, indigenous peoples, and mountain farming. It aims to strengthen agricultural producers and farmers' positions within value chains, with a particular focus on smallholder farmers. It closely cooperates with the Food and Agriculture Organization, which is also headquartered in Rome. It also aims to improve the livelihood of producers and rural communities in general. Researcher Annette Schramm of the University of Tübingen in Germany in 2017 voiced criticism of the WFO for acting as a successor to the now-defunct IFAP, with its focus on representing middle-class to rich farmers from the Global North, and a threat to the Civil Society Mechanism, (now Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism (CSIPM)), an autonomous part of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security. WFO cooperates with Bayer in several projects (WFO Gymnasium, "Cattle4Care").

People Robert Carlson of the United States was president of the WFO before the election of Peter Kendall of the United Kingdom in March 2014, but resigned in October 2014 owing to being appointed to a UK government post. Evelyn Nguleka, who was the first woman president of Zambia Agricultural Organization and the Zambia National Farmers Union, was appointed as acting president in October 2014, and president in 2015. After her resignation on 22 September 2016, WFO vice-president William Rolleston, president of the Federated Farmers of New Zealand, stepped into the acting role. On 13 June 2017, South African farmer Theo de Jager was elected president. He was the first South African to assume the role. He had led the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions since 2013, and had also had a stint as president of the Pan-African Farmers' Organisation. In June 2022 Arnold Puech d'Alissac, a family farmer from the Normandy region in northern France, was elected president, and remains in the position as of June 2024. From 2017 until 2022 he had represented the European constituency on the WFO board. His term ends in 2026. In June 2024, Fiona Simson, who had been first female president of the National Farmers' Federation in Australia from 2016 until 2023 and was elected to the WFO board in 2023, was elected vice-president of the WFO. She is the first Australian vice-president.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with World Farmers' Organisation

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what World Farmers' Organisation claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to World Farmers' Organisation before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about World Farmers' Organisation ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of World Farmers' Organisation

In research: World Farmers' Organisation appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses World Farmers' Organisation in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: World Farmers' Organisation is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2011 establishments in Italy, Farmers' organizations, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for World Farmers' Organisation outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is World Farmers' Organisation in simple terms?

The World Farmers' Organization (WFO) is an international organisation of farmers with a focus on agroecology, farming typologies, food chains, indigenous peoples, and mountain farming. History A former organisation, the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, was dissolved in 2010.

Why does World Farmers' Organisation matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study World Farmers' Organisation?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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